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1956 | B/N | 21 min

A twenty-minute documentary on the French National Library in which Resnais shows how the library functions as a warehouse that contains the collective memory of humanity.


Country: Francia
Direction: Resnais; Alain
Script: Forlani; Rémo
Production: Braunberger; Pierre
Photography: Cloquet; Ghislain
Sound: Marignan; Studio
Music: Jarre; Maurice
Participation year at FICM: 2009

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